Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

by78

by78

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Richard Santos said:
One of the lessons of the last 30 years is APC/MICV requires protection from HEAT rounds comparable to main battle tanks on their front and sides.
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Where did you learn of this? Any source to back this up? I have never heard of the 'lessons learned' that would require IFVs and lowly APCs to match MBTs in terms of protection against HEAT rounds or shaped charges. In fact, this sounds implausible, downright ridiculous even.
 
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ohan_qwe

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Richard Santos said:
One of the lessons of the last 30 years is APC/MICV requires protection from HEAT rounds comparable to main battle tanks on their front and sides. So newer concept s for APC/MICV all feature bloated sides with thick spaced and composite appliqué armor modules that extends well beyond the sides of the tracks.

But I’ve never seen any Chinese MICV fitted with similar side protection modules. Are they equipped to accept these kinds of modules?
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Does that requirement comes from fighting insurgents armed with RPG?

The add on armor won't make a difference in a peer war as the enemy would have ATGM that is designed to kill tanks.
 
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FishWings

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ohan_qwe said:
Does that requirement comes from fighting insurgents armed with RPG?

The add on armor won't make a difference in a peer war as the enemy would have ATGM that is designed to kill tanks.
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Insurgents have ATGM too

Additionally, ERA is not a bad substitute for these modules. In the Karabakh war, there was I believe one Azeri T-90S which took a Konkurs to the side hull, where the Kontakt-5 was. And it survived.
 
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by78

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Many ZBD-05s taking a dip in the ocean.

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